Upcoming Screenings of award-winning health care film: THE WAITING ROOM

THE WAITING ROOM is a character-driven documentary that uses extraordinary access to go behind the doors of an American public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients.

CHMP is co-sponsoring two screenings in May of Pete Nick’s THE WAITING ROOM an award-winning film about health care told through individual stories of patients, providers and family members at a public hospital emergency room in Oakland CA. We showed the film at our Envision Health series last November to a riveted audience. If you missed it last November be sure to see it at a screening in May!

MAY 12 – The Schomburg Center in Manhattan – 4pm. There will be a Q&A after the film with Pete Nicks and health experts. There will be preventative health screenings available at the event and a table of healthy snacks.

MAY 19 – Rooftop Films in Brooklyn – 8pm. Along with the film there will be preventative health screenings available at the event and a table of healthy snacks.

Please visit the film’s website for tickets & more information about the film and national social media project:

THE WAITING ROOM is a character-driven documentary

Theresa Brown, RN “True Confessions” airs on 20/20 Friday, April 27

Theresa Brown, RN is a member of CHMP’s National Advisory Council and you can see her this Friday, April 27  10:00 – 11:00 pm ET, in the featured segment called True Confessions” on “20/20″on ABC Television.

Theresa is also a paid contributor to the New York Times blog Well.  Her book, Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between, was released June, 1 2010, by HarperCollins. She has had print pieces in the New York Times “Science Times” section, and in Scrubs Magazine, and Op-Eds on CNN.com, the New York Times, and in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Theresa Brown, RN is a member of CHMP's

EVENT Deborah Jiang Stein “Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Inside the World of a Woman Born in Prison”

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Health, Media & Policy, Barbara Glickstein, co-director will be in conversation with the author.

A Conversation with

Deborah Jiang Stein

 

Author of Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus
Inside the World of a Woman Born in Prison

 

Judson Memorial Church

55 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Sunday, May 6^th 3pm

 

Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Inside the World of a Woman Born in Prison is the remarkable story of a woman whose rough start in life drives her to find true purpose even as she struggles to accept and overcome her own past, born in prison to a heroin addicted mother.

Sheer nerve carries her around the country to inspire new pathways to a brighter future for incarcerated women and their children, those most forgotten by society.

This is a story about the courage and curiosity necessary to create an authentic life with purpose and resilience, and what it takes to hold onto this courage and plow forward.

Come join us for a conversation and a great time with Deborah – tutus optional!

BOOKS FOR SALE AT THE EVENT

This event is co-sponsored by the Center